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As part of our end of year AS Level coursework, we were tasked with creating a short two minute length film to a genre of our own choice. We were entirely responsible for the development of a narrative, storyline, setting and characters. As a group we agreed we wanted to think outside of the box in terms of the genre and decided to make an adaptation of a literary classic. We made a modern lighthearted adaptation of the classic Oscar Wilde play, The Importance of Being Earnest hence the name of the project EARNEST. In order to modernise the story we incorporated elements of social media and and the concept of online cat-fishing. There are multiple narratives that can be applied to this unusual story: The work of Claude-Levi Strauss and his notion of Binary Opposition is applicable to our project EARNEST as the conflict of honesty vs deception is a major element of the plot. In the short film we have two central characters (Jay and Ali) who both decide to get involved in online cat f...

An example of a short film that I will attempt to apply narrative theories to, is No-one Is Safe From Son Of Sam.  https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2017/08/28/no-one-safe-son-sam/ This short film from Short Of The Week tells the story of one of America's most notorious serial killers known as Son of Sam (also known as The 44 Caliber Killer). David Berkowitz turned New York into his own personal hunting ground, murdering six women between 1976 to 1977. There was no apparent motive behind these murders which made the crimes all the more chilling. During this time he sent letters to the police and newsagents stating 'I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt, prowling the streets looking for fair game.' Berkowitz claimed that his neighbour's dog that was possessed by a demon 'told him to murder six people'.  The short film is portrayed in a documentary/ television news style. Some narrative theories that apply to this dramatic short film include the five stages of conve...

NARRATIVE THEORY In media terms, narrative is the coherence/organisation given to a series of facts. The human mind needs narrative to make sense of things. We connect events and make interpretations based on those connections. In everything we seek a beginning, a middle and an end. We understand and construct meaning using our experience of reality and of previous texts. Each text becomes part of the previous and the next through its relationship with the audience. Narrative is related to audience theory as narrative is used to appeal to the audience. Narrative elements are created to entice an audience or to keep them interested.  When unpacking a narrative in order to find its meaning, there are a series of codes and conventions that need to be considered. When we look at a narrative we examine the conventions of:  Genres  Character Form Time We can use knowledge of these conventions to help us interpret the text. In particular, Time is something that we ...